Other Names

General Description

Carapace with plate-like tubercles anteriorly; anterolateral margin with 5 rounded lobes. Claws (chelipeds) with shiny tubercles. Walking legs covered with numerous long blunt spines. Carapace red or orange, often with patches of white on legs. Up to 2 cm wide.

Biology

Actaea peronii is one of the commonest and most colourful small crabs in the sediments of the southern Australian shelf but is rarely seen intertidally or in bays. It is certainly one of the easiest to recognise.